Aaron Sorkin Says The West Wing with Donald Trump as President Wouldn’t be Believable

“Awful!” The West Wing creator says with a laugh. "Well, no, here's what would happen - I would create that Donald Trump-esque character, but I would have to make some adjustments to the character to make it believable. If I just did Trump as Trump, no-one would buy that as a believable character.” Sorkin adds: "I think that if the characters on The West Wing were watching a TV show about the characters who are running for President right now, they'd say, 'This is insane! You can't believe this, this is a silly television show, they should get it closer to real life.'"

The Shonda Rhimes drama is more than a guilty pleasure, and should be compared to the best modern cable dramas, says Alan Sepinwall. "Scandal has some soap DNA, but it has plenty of cable anti-hero DNA as well, and always has,” he says.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Man Seeking Woman return Jan. 6, Zach Galifianakis’ Baskets debuts Jan. 21. American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson bows Feb. 2. And The Americans, which usually premieres in January, will kick off its fourth season in March.

"As long as ABC's How to Get Away with Murder has the always riveting Viola Davis as its star, it's likely to have a pulse," says Robert Bianco. "But with just two weeks to go before the show's winter break, that heartbeat is growing increasingly faint, as a once enjoyable if nonsensical pulp mystery has turned into a slow, somber chore. The main cause of this sophomore slump has been the writers' decision to let the melodrama around Bonnie's murder of Rebecca carry on throughout the fall.” PLUS: Here are the odds on who shot Annalise.

DVR numbers and streaming numbers have made TV metrics more complicated, as Willa Paskin points out: "As ratings have gone down, they have gotten increasingly esoteric, using such complicated measurements that they may as well be spells cast to conjure missing eyeballs."